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Oil Companies Sign on to UN Methane Plan
August 31, 2015
Demonstrating pressure on businesses from activists and UN officials to implement the UN climate change agenda, a group of oil companies have agreed to a pledge, produced by the UN, to reduce methane emissions.
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Paper Calls for "Global Framework Convention" on BHR
August 27, 2015
Finding that a "regulatory gap" exists in the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and that standards short of a global treaty do not have the potential to close this gap, Tori Loven Kirkebø argues in a recent paper that a "global framework convention" could regulate governments and corporations to the extent required to secure the protection of human rights from business.
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Academic Seeks Obligations for Companies in International Law
August 27, 2015
Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli of the La Sabana University in Colombia writes that the global business and human rights agenda's advancement depends largely upon the recognition, in his view, that corporations, rather than only governments, are subject directly to obligations under international human rights law.
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OAS Takes up Global BHR Agenda
August 27, 2015
An article discusses how the various institutions of the international Organization of American States ("OAS"), including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, have recently begun to pursue the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda of the UN and international activists.
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US Court Panel Re-Topples Conflict Minerals Rule
August 26, 2015
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has once again struck down, as a free speech violation, a Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring the disclosure by businesses whether minerals in their products may have profited those involved in armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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